@george1421
Thanks George and Sabastian for helping with the in detail plan for the rollout. Much Appreciated.

Plan for High and Medium site: 1: Deploying via local master FOG server will be ideal for the environment, My plan is to set up standalone FOG server on the high-end laptop in Phase 1 and ship to the larger sites for the rollout and use the same laptop for other medium user locations in phase 2.
Instead of using the storage for image changes, I am planning to copy the image via SFTP on the local FOG Server ( Chopping the image via 7Zip Archive and merging back at destination)
Question: Can we append all the FOG database on the master server once the migration is done on the site for the future reference or to push the application update?

Need your Suggestion for remote and low site users:
1: Can we build the live ubuntu fog server with image, which can USB boot on any other hardware for FOG imaging, with the only base image with Fog Service running.
2: Is there any way to make Clonezilla Zero-touch for the image deployment, as most of the remote users are not technical, with few clicks’ deployment will save Admin time and effort.
Does Domain Join work over the VPN via Fog considering all the necessary AD ports are opened, Plan is to deploy the image either step 1 or step 2, mostly step 2 and then domain join, and application push will be done over the VPN.
On the option to create the application group is fantastic this will help in avoiding multiple FOG images. I have never tried that, do we have any reference document on how to build the application and group.
Also, any thoughts on taking the user backup via Fog, Fog takes the image-level backup (Not recommended ,it will need lot of space), but can we do any customization which will help to take the folder level backup only and restore it back after imaging, I understand at this stage its too much for Fog, but just a thought on the backup
Please let know your inputs and suggestions, that will guide us to take the right decision. My Company leadership is proposing on SCCM with AzureIntune

@george1421

Hi George, Please find the response on 3 questions

1. You have about 6500 users, how many sites are you talking about?
   Total 490 Sites

2. Based on sites, what is the smallest site (in computer count) and what is the largest site (in computer count)?
   Correction on users - its 7600
   6 Site with more then 200 Users contributing 2500 Computers
   6 Site with more then 100 Computers contributing 780 Computers
   14 Site with more then 50 Computers Contributing 900 Computers
   40 Site with more then 20 Computers Contributing 1100 Computers
   90 Site with more then 10 Computers Contributing 1000 Computers
   334 Sites with less then 10 Computers Contributing 1320 Computers

3.Do you have one base image for all 6500 computers or do you have multiple base images (i.e. one for office, one for labs, one for plant floor, etc)?

Base Image is as per the user profile and it differs from location to location, if needed we can exclude the heavy application to reduce the image size.

@george1421

Hi George,
Appreciate your inputs Please find my response for the 6 points.
1.How many users are you talking about?
Approx 6500 users scattered in US and Canada

2.How are the remote users connected to HQ? Is it via a vpn or some other tech?
Its Mix network environment, User working from Office on
High Network Bandwidth DSL Network
Medium Bandwidth 10 MBPS
Low Bandwidth 1.5 to 3 MBPS
Work from Home via VPN ( 3- 5 MBPS tunnel)

3.Is this to upgrade a remote site (small office) or just a single user?
Upgrade from Win 10 to Win 10 -15%
Upgrade from Win 7 to Win 10 -45%
Hardware Refresh - 40 % - (Planned via Fog(depot location) and ship to the user)

4.If its a single user, how tech savvy is the user?
User is Semi Tech, I have a team of 6 who can assist

5.How low of bandwidth are you talking about?
Low bandwidth range 1.5 to 3 MBPS

6.How big is your reference image? (GB)
Image size is approx 20 GB

Hi Team,
I am Sysadmin and working on a project to deploy and upgrade windows 10 laptops and desktop. I need help in deploying the image over the internet for the low internet BW and for the remote user. Can we do via fog or FOG based USB disk? Please suggest. Thanks